Madrid taxi drivers have protested against the “covert privatization of transport” and read from a manifesto "against the uberization of public services and against privatization, precarity, marginalization and poverty."

Halfway through a 10-year deal, South Korea’s capital local government decides to put an end to its contract with French private operators RATP Dev and Transdev after negotiations over renewed contract conditions failed. The announcement, on 18 January, came shortly after members of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union (KPTU), a PSI and ITF affiliate, made public their intention to go on strike.

Source: PSI

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The Partnership for Working Families, which recently co-authored a new report on the unique power of cities to make progressive change, has launched “We Make This City,” a 10-city national campaign “for community-controlled, publicly owned institutions, structures, and services. We are fighting to ensure all people have access to the systems and structures needed to live full and healthy lives. This includes transportation systems that connect us to work, schools and services, the ability to afford housing in the communities we love, access to clean water and energy and organized power for workers who make all this possible. Public infrastructure connects us all and should serve the needs of the people, not the pockets of corporations. (…) As we struggle to meet our people’s basic needs, corporate interests tell us that they are actually the solution to our problem. Private entities are taking over our roads, our water and our schools — the building blocks of our cities — to create more profit for themselves. It isn’t working for us. The rich are getting richer and our people are suffering.”

Counter Balance has explored in recent years the new wave of large-scale infrastructure projects being financed all over the world, seeking to understand the main drivers behind the new “global infrastructure agenda”, “what are the risks it entails?” and how to challenge it. As part of this work on infrastructure financing, specific attention has been paid to “mega-corridors” promoted by financial institutions and numerous governments.
This report, based on a research undertaken by Nick Hildyard from the Corner House, is a first step in analysing the drivers behind these “mega-corridors” and informing a wider public of the challenges related to them.

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